Reinforcement Learning

What does it really mean to make a decision? Is it going with what feels right? Is it calculating risks and rewards, moment by moment? Or maybe, it’s remembering what went wrong last time, and choosing better. But what if a robot starts doing that too? What if it remembers and adapts not because it’s told to but because it chooses to? That question lands differently when you’ve seen a machine pause, adapt... even protect. What happens when a robot starts making choices on its own? In the 2015 film Chappie, directed by Neill Blomkamp, we meet a robot that [...]